You can dream of us stopping the crap-adding, but it won't happen soon enough. If we want to survive, we need to come up with a different solution. This is one, sulfur in the stratosphere is another, adding iron to sea water may work too.
All the oil is going to be burned, and most of the coal.
You can dream of that as much as you want, it won't happen. The rate of change is just too high for that kind of thing. The solution: get your product's kernel modules integrated in the main kernel. Or hire more developers, it'll only get worse.
At present, all the solar generating plants in the world use mirrors to concentrate the sunlight on the solar cells, thereby greatly increasing performance.
Only the ones in areas with few clouds. Of course those places are best for solar anyway, but for the rest there's this new technology.
You mean a RAID driver? Yes, if you have a RAID setup on an older machine you might need a RAID driver on a floppy. But I'd say 95% of end-users don't have RAID. You don't need separate drivers for the vast majority of IDE or SATA setups.
For Windows XP you need a driver floppy for all AHCI installations. That's basically all systems these days. However, almost all of them have legacy-ATA emulation turned on by the factory so that Windows XP will install -- even though that means worse disk performance. Good luck getting a random user to flip the BIOS switch if it's set to AHCI though.
If RMS is such a key contributor to Linux how come his kernel is such a failure?
Richard Stallman is a computer scientist who spent a long time at an AI lab. The GNU project started out doing new implementations of existing Unix utilities. The new implementations were improvements over existing ones, but still they were very narrowly defined projects. Richard Stallman intended the innovation to start with the kernel, implementing a radically different paradigm where each user would be able to do almost everything that traditionally was reserved for the systems administrator. It is hardly surprising that they were overtaken by someone following the tried-and-true reimplementation path for the kernel as well. Linux was simply easier to hack on and had a much narrower scope than HURD.
Now, many years later, the Linux kernel is acquiring some of the features that HURD had from the start. The Linux route, like the GNU-except-HURD route, is just more successful.
it makes sense for them to keep their source code hidden and only distribute the binaries.
If their code is sufficiently valuable, reverse engineering is worth the trouble. It's worth giving up that little extra bit of freedom that GPL gives you in order to get rid of the restraint on trade that is copyright.
No software developer should begrudge any other the right to license their hard work and well-deserved property rights in the manner they see fit and to the extent they see fit.
Copyright isn't a natural right. It's just a restraint on trade. Many of us believe it has outlived its usefulness.
Err, how did they manage that? Admittedly, the MC68000 originally had a 16-bit ALU, but the only way you can tell is that some operations take twice as long if you run them on 32-bit values. Switching to a proper 32-bit CPU like the MC68020 involved no software changes. You can write software which runs on the MC68000 but breaks on the MC68020, but you have to work pretty hard at it.
All the vendors of draft-N equipment promise that their equipment can be upgraded to the standard when the standard is ready. Now, that happens to be true if that particular vendors implementation ends up being close to the standard. However, the implementations are different enough that it's unlikely that they can find a way for ALL vendors to keep their promise.
As long as no standard emerges, noone has to make product recalls.
I installed Opera on my E70. It didn't seem faster, more convenient, or more compatible than the built-in browser, so it went out when the trial expired.
Don't be confused by the legal text where they reserve all of their additional rights - "and in addition to any other remedies Novell may have" - that's not some kind of trap. Those spikes hanging from the ceiling are just decoration too, I'm sure. I won't worry about the
Panspermia needs better evidence before it should be taken seriously. Panspermia is science though, which is nice. I.e. it makes testable predictions -- we should find organic compounds and even simple life on other planets and meteorites, if panspermia is true. Currently testing those predictions is a bit beyond our means, but hopefully that will change.
So should anyone take panspermia seriously? Only if they are interested in pursuing a possibly (maybe even probably) fruitless search. Some will do that. In a hundred years we should know the answer with almost certainty, if we manage to keep civilization going until then.
I'm rebutting the claim that Bush has killed more innocent people than any mass murderer. Stalin has killed more innocent people. A mass murderer only counts as a mass murderer if he directly kills his victims. Bush doesn't, Stalin didn't. Therefore it is true that Bush killed more innocent people that any mass murderer. Stalin and Hitler (and maybe a hundred more) are even worse, of course.
Because they're afraid they'll be crushed to a fine pulp when they get hit by a big honking SUV. Then they really should watch Formula 1. Those cars are very light and they break into bits and pieces, but the driver very rarely gets seriously injured. There's nothing that a SUV can do to those cars that the walls and tarmac haven't done worse already.
Some of the safety features are unlikely to make it into consumer vehicles, like crash helmets locked to the car and seats molded to the shape of the driver. However, most regular car crashes don't happen speeds above 200km/h, unlike the Formula 1 crashes.
except for the brain-damaged idea of POE, but only the most idiotic router designers would implement that What's wrong with PoE? Personally I think it's brilliant, avoiding lots of little inefficient wall warts everywhere.
Disclaimer: I work for a company which resells ADSL, fiber and WiMAX (and other technologies). WiMAX lines can be very reliable when set up right. First of all, you need line-of-sight from the antenna to the base station. For business lines, forget about using units with built-in antennas for indoor use. You need professionals to install the antenna, there are lots of things which can break line-of-sight. Building cranes are a favourite...
Anyway, a proper WiMAX installation has latency less than 3ms for the WiMAX link, often less than 1ms. Packet loss is less than 1 in 10000, usually much less. In most cases you should achieve that from first installation, but sometimes it will take an antenna adjustment or a switch to a different base station before you get there.
The largest problem is interference, especially from military radars. They aren't supposed to interfere with the WiMAX bands except during actual combat, but reality is different.
They won't let you try it out? Its not like they have to run any wires anywhere. Putting up WiMAX is the expensive bit. It means getting permission to put up the antenna and installing the antenna plus the cable to the wiring closet. If there isn't an antenna on the base station pointed in the right direction, add that too. The equipment itself is reasonably cheap these days.
The WiMAX company would have to be pretty desperate to do that without a contract.
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What you're doing is a waste of time. I'm sure you enjoy your holier-than-thou posturing, but it doesn't help.
It does help. It reminds me that there are a few sane people on slashdot, and that is a welcome relief.
You can dream of us stopping the crap-adding, but it won't happen soon enough. If we want to survive, we need to come up with a different solution. This is one, sulfur in the stratosphere is another, adding iron to sea water may work too.
All the oil is going to be burned, and most of the coal.
You can dream of that as much as you want, it won't happen. The rate of change is just too high for that kind of thing. The solution: get your product's kernel modules integrated in the main kernel. Or hire more developers, it'll only get worse.
Next time, wait until there's a REAL article on the tech, not a completely information-free and bullshit press release.
It isn't information-free, you just can't read.
At present, all the solar generating plants in the world use mirrors to concentrate the sunlight on the solar cells, thereby greatly increasing performance.
Only the ones in areas with few clouds. Of course those places are best for solar anyway, but for the rest there's this new technology.
You mean a RAID driver? Yes, if you have a RAID setup on an older machine you might need a RAID driver on a floppy. But I'd say 95% of end-users don't have RAID. You don't need separate drivers for the vast majority of IDE or SATA setups.
For Windows XP you need a driver floppy for all AHCI installations. That's basically all systems these days. However, almost all of them have legacy-ATA emulation turned on by the factory so that Windows XP will install -- even though that means worse disk performance. Good luck getting a random user to flip the BIOS switch if it's set to AHCI though.
If RMS is such a key contributor to Linux how come his kernel is such a failure?
Richard Stallman is a computer scientist who spent a long time at an AI lab. The GNU project started out doing new implementations of existing Unix utilities. The new implementations were improvements over existing ones, but still they were very narrowly defined projects. Richard Stallman intended the innovation to start with the kernel, implementing a radically different paradigm where each user would be able to do almost everything that traditionally was reserved for the systems administrator. It is hardly surprising that they were overtaken by someone following the tried-and-true reimplementation path for the kernel as well. Linux was simply easier to hack on and had a much narrower scope than HURD.
Now, many years later, the Linux kernel is acquiring some of the features that HURD had from the start. The Linux route, like the GNU-except-HURD route, is just more successful.
Exactly how were those "gifts" getting in if you didn't manually disable it ?
They probably didn't. AV software lies. Software firewalls lie more. They want to justify their existence, after all.
And there was no copyright law. Microsoft would, amazingly, keep producing revolutionary products in concurrence with other people.
Sounds like the perfect argument for abolishing copyright -- even its greatest beneficiary doesn't need it.
it makes sense for them to keep their source code hidden and only distribute the binaries.
If their code is sufficiently valuable, reverse engineering is worth the trouble. It's worth giving up that little extra bit of freedom that GPL gives you in order to get rid of the restraint on trade that is copyright.
No software developer should begrudge any other the right to license their hard work and well-deserved property rights in the manner they see fit and to the extent they see fit.
Copyright isn't a natural right. It's just a restraint on trade. Many of us believe it has outlived its usefulness.
Ah, that makes sense. The whole n-bit designation is fairly clear for new processors, but the further back you go, the blurrier it gets.
16 bit CPU.
Err, how did they manage that? Admittedly, the MC68000 originally had a 16-bit ALU, but the only way you can tell is that some operations take twice as long if you run them on 32-bit values. Switching to a proper 32-bit CPU like the MC68020 involved no software changes. You can write software which runs on the MC68000 but breaks on the MC68020, but you have to work pretty hard at it.
All the vendors of draft-N equipment promise that their equipment can be upgraded to the standard when the standard is ready. Now, that happens to be true if that particular vendors implementation ends up being close to the standard. However, the implementations are different enough that it's unlikely that they can find a way for ALL vendors to keep their promise.
As long as no standard emerges, noone has to make product recalls.
Or am i missing something?
Gravity.
Disclaimer: Won't work if you accelerate beyond escape velocity.
Alpha Centauri has a native port. You don't need Wine.
I installed Opera on my E70. It didn't seem faster, more convenient, or more compatible than the built-in browser, so it went out when the trial expired.
So should anyone take panspermia seriously? Only if they are interested in pursuing a possibly (maybe even probably) fruitless search. Some will do that. In a hundred years we should know the answer with almost certainty, if we manage to keep civilization going until then.
Some of the safety features are unlikely to make it into consumer vehicles, like crash helmets locked to the car and seats molded to the shape of the driver. However, most regular car crashes don't happen speeds above 200km/h, unlike the Formula 1 crashes.
Disclaimer: I work for a company which resells ADSL, fiber and WiMAX (and other technologies). WiMAX lines can be very reliable when set up right. First of all, you need line-of-sight from the antenna to the base station. For business lines, forget about using units with built-in antennas for indoor use. You need professionals to install the antenna, there are lots of things which can break line-of-sight. Building cranes are a favourite...
Anyway, a proper WiMAX installation has latency less than 3ms for the WiMAX link, often less than 1ms. Packet loss is less than 1 in 10000, usually much less. In most cases you should achieve that from first installation, but sometimes it will take an antenna adjustment or a switch to a different base station before you get there.
The largest problem is interference, especially from military radars. They aren't supposed to interfere with the WiMAX bands except during actual combat, but reality is different.
The WiMAX company would have to be pretty desperate to do that without a contract.